Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including ''Longing for the Harmonies'' (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate
Frank Wilczek
Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Direct ...
, and of ''Absolute Zero Gravity'' (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist
Joel E. Cohen Joel Ephraim Cohen (born February 10, 1944) is a Mathematical and theoretical biology, mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institut ...
. She is a Wikipedian and spoke at Wikimania in 2006.
Biography
Devine earned a master's degree in engineering from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
.
Devine has had, according to her self-description, "many years of immersion in geek sociology, including both
Slashdot
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and Wikipedia
flame wars
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".
She is co-author, with husband
Frank Wilczek
Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Direct ...
, of ''Longing for the Harmonies'', an appreciation of modern physics; and also, with biologist
Joel E. Cohen Joel Ephraim Cohen (born February 10, 1944) is a Mathematical and theoretical biology, mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institut ...
, of ''Absolute Zero Gravity'', a collection of science
joke
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s, poems, and stories. About 75 pages taken from her blog were included as "a contribution" to a collection of essays written by Frank Wilczek on various aspects of physics, ''Fantastic Realities''.
Devine spoke at
Wikimania
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, f ...
in 2006.
Selected works
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References
External links
Now with Even More Funny Ha-Ha and Peculiar€”Betsy's blog
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ttps://web.archive.org/web/20041010081105/http://steverubel.typepad.com/micropersuasion/2004/05/a_bloggerside_c.html 2004 interview with Steve Rubelabout her work for Feedster
"Blogging in Boston" podcast with Tony Kahn, from "Morning Stories" show aired in 2004(Link is to mp3 file)
2005 Podcast conversation with Dave Winer(Link is to mp3 file of 40-minute conversation)
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1946 births
Living people
American bloggers
American women journalists
American science writers
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American women bloggers
American Wikimedians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women writers